Mallory's Milieu - CARTOONS

Mallory's Milieu - CARTOONS

I've wanted to be a cartoonist since about 5th grade. I drew cartoons for my High School and College newspapers and now for my local small-town newspaper. Here is a collection of some of my favorites.

When you go to this page, bookmark it to your favorites because I add to it almost every week. Tell your friends about it, forward the web address around if you enjoy them. Who knows, maybe you can create a buzz for me or a web-following so that eventually I could sell my work to bigger papers, magazines, or best yet, get syndicated. Don't get me wrong, I love teaching, but how cool would it be to get to actually make a living drawing funny pictures.

Anyway, take a look, either luagh or get angry, but either way, enjoy.

Mallory's Milieu - CARTOONS

Mallory's Milieu - CARTOONS

I've wanted to be a cartoonist since about 5th grade. I drew cartoons for my High School and College newspapers and now for my local small-town newspaper. Here is a collection of some of my favorites.

When you go to this page, bookmark it to your favorites because I add to it almost every week. Tell your friends about it, forward the web address around if you enjoy them. Who knows, maybe you can create a buzz for me or a web-following so that eventually I could sell my work to bigger papers, magazines, or best yet, get syndicated. Don't get me wrong, I love teaching, but how cool would it be to get to actually make a living drawing funny pictures.

Anyway, take a look, either luagh or get angry, but either way, enjoy.

ClustrMaps - map of visitor locations - zoom map

ClustrMaps - map of visitor locations - zoom map
Hey, how about this, 1000 visitors. Not many in Blog terms these, days, but it's still a milestone. And check it out, at least 30 of those 1,000 visitors were in Europe and a few accross Asia, even one in South Africa and one in Alaska!

Hey, if you liked this blog, highlight and copy the web address and email it to a friend. Let's see how long it takes to get to 2,ooo and how much further accross the globe we can get.

Hope you like my are. You can see a TON more of my art at
http://tmal.multiply.com/photos

I'm a HIgh School Art teacher in Iowa and an aspiring cartoonist as well- you can see my cartoons at
http://tmal.multiply.com/photos/album/2

Happy Surfing!

What ever happened to childhood?

What ever happened to childhood?
Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper — Schleswig Leader, Thursday, December 7, 2006 – Page 3

Last summer a reader gave me a suggestion for a column, but I hedged on writing it because I wasn’t quite sure how to approach it. I’m still not sure.

The reader was concerned about how over-scheduled kids’ lives have become and how everyone’s lives in the community seem to be dominated by school sports.

When the reader gave me this idea, the C.O.U. Lady Bobcats were on their perennial march to the state softball tournaments. I didn’t want to look like I was trying to criticize their Coach and Athletic Director or any of the players or their parents.

I was afraid that some people would think that since I’ve served as a church youth group counsellor I was just having sour grapes about having to compete for kids’ time with “open gym,” sports and play practices, 4-H, FFA, band, work etc. Sure, it does make it a chore and plenty of people miss the days when Wednesday nights and all of Sunday were off-limits, but that’s not the real problem either.

By waiting till now to address the issue, I certainly don’t want it to look like I’m complaining about my own A.D. at Boyer Valley about how many basketball games we have to deal with (I coach cheerleading).

I never have understood why they get a season done in ten or eleven games in football, but basketball takes more than 22. I really feel sorry for kids who play JV and Varsity and the people who serve as Assistant Coaches for Varsity who are also basically the head coaches for JV- these people end up having at least 30 or more games total.

But please understand that I’m not complaining about or blaming either of these school’s athletic directors. And even if I wanted to, scholastic sports scheduling isn’t something that’s done unilaterally. There are conference, district, regional and state levels of guidelines and planning.

No, this reader who thought I should write about how thinly-stretched kids’ lives have become wasn’t only worried about high school kids anyway. If I read them right, they were worried about all ages of kids.

The reason I finally decided to write about it here is that are two articles that I recently read in the Chicago Tribune.

One story from the Associated Press sites several child development experts who report finding more and more physical and behavior changes happening to 8-12 year-olds, “tweens” that used to occur during the teen years.

The other story told about the American Academy of Pediatric’s concerns that children are being over scheduled and need more time for unstructured play.

The first story explained that many 8-12 year olds go on dates, have their own cell phones, listen to sexually charged music, view R-rated movies, play mature-rated video games and spend time gossiping on MySpace.

They’re dressing and talking in more adult, sexually suggestive and casual and disrespectful ways.

But then, didn’t adults say that about is when we were kids?

When I was 8-12 we were still riding our bikes, playing cops and robbers, building things with legos, or making up stories with our Hotwheels cars or our Star Wars action figures. We explored wilderness areas near our homes or built forts and tree houses.

Among other things, peer-pressure, technology, consumerism and an accelerated pace of life are eating away at our childrens’ innocence.

The second story suggested that many parents hope to occupy their children’s time because parents aren’t always available or willing to supervise their kids’ free time. Other parents mistakenly assume that overloading their kids is the best way to insure that they will achieve.
But while we pour time and money into these activities or transportation to and from them, we may be sacrificing something far more precious.

Some children are suffering depression, exhaustion, anxiety, irritability and loss of sleep.
Meanwhile, not having time to fantasize, daydream, act out imaginary activities or just horse around deprives youngsters of a lot of cognitive, social, emotional and physical development.
Experts recommend limiting kids to no more than three extracurricular activities. For example: one sport, one music or fine art and one youth group.

Of course, if you’re like us, you have two or three kids, so that’s still six to nine activities to fit into a seven day week.

Good luck.

Starting a new painting

Tuesday Dec 5- a very basic underpainting

December 6- adding some white areas- students made comments that it looked good- but ghostly with the empty eyes

Day 3, Thursday December 7- Some burnt umber for the hair and eyes, some flesh tones- making progress. Ellen's birthday is Decmber 14 and we'll probably celebrate on the 16th or 17th, so I have a little more time, but then again it is oil so it may be messy.

Other People's cartoons

Maybe I love this one because I like baseball. This is the thing, it's all about preception. Maybe Bush is a "half-full" guy and I'm just too "half-empty," or maybe he sees what he wants to see. Theologions might say he uses the isogetical method rather than the exogetical one. Basically he comes to any problem with preconceptions that he refuses to surrender, even in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Classic Denial.Tell me again why they appointed this guy in the first place? Sure, like other critics I have a problem with his history of harassing and bullying his subordinates, but my real hang up was that he had on numerous occasions stated that he did not believe that the U.N. should even exist nor that the U.S. needed to recognize their legitimacy. WHY would you make someone our representative to the UN who is opposed to its very existance??!
Which leads us to other Bush Administration appointees. We already have heads of EPA and the Department of Ed. who don't believe that their positions should even exist, and of course Bolton, now these. How is that Republican? Did Lincon say "of the corporations, for the corporations?"

Substitute Teacher to the world

Listen to this guy's comparison to the U.S. to a substatute teacher. I
think he's a Republican, but it was really funny:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6567190

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comfortable." ~Garrison Keillor

2 flags and 3 sisters

Is this a keen retr0-styled Christmas photo or what? All about childhood and sisterhood. And here's a couple of patriotic pics of the flags at our local Legion Post's Veteran's memorial too, just to add to the whole family/tradition/small town Midwestern theme. Enjoy

Harvest

Say thanks to the Armed Forces in Iraq

Something cool that Xerox is doing

If you go to this web site, www.letssaythanks.com , you can pick out a
thank you card and
Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently
serving in Iraq. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to
some member of the armed services. The cards are really cool.... they
are artwork done by children.

How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!!
This is a great site.Please send a card.
It is FREE and it only takes a second.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these?
Whether you are for or against the war, our guys and gals over there
need to know we are behind them...

Life is the Coffee

Leslie Brown, a former student and yearbook editor of mine sent me this and I thought I'd pass it along. Important lesson for coffee lovers like me.

LIFE  IS THE COFFEE
  
A  group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit  their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints  about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to  the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups -  porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, and some  exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the  coffee.

After  all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you  noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the  plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for  yourselves, it may also be the source of your problems and stress. Be assured  that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases, it's just more  expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really  wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups.? ...  and then began eyeing each other's  cups.
  
Now  consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, houses, cars, things, money and  position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life,  and the type of cup we have does not define nor change the quality of life we  live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee  God has provided us."
God  brews the coffee, not the cups . . . enjoy your coffee.
  
"Being  happy doesn't mean everything's perfect; it means you've decided to see beyond  the imperfections."  
  
Live  in peace and peace will live in you.  


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